American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 397-399
Description
Book review of: A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England by Frank Waabu O'Brien (Moondancer) and Julianne Jennings (Strong Woman)
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
Description
Looks at how role reversals and racial imitations in Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre transforms the stereotypical trappings of Indian roles by redescribing and incorporating a sense of the past into the present.
Working Paper Series (Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics) ; no. 20
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jerry Lipka
Barbara Adams
Description
Study uses the math curriculum "Building a Fish Rack: Investigations into Proof, Properties, Perimeter, and Area" to show culturally-based instruction has been successful with Yup'ik students.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, pp. 30-31
Description
Discussion on the goals of the Tumitchiat Leadership Summit in Barrow, Alaska, including maintaining the Inupiaq culture and encouraging youth to carry on with higher education.
Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 10, no. 3, August 2004, pp. 287-301
Description
Demonstrates that two-spirit people reported higher rates of childhood physical abuse, more historical trauma in their families, higher levels of psychological symptoms, more mental health service utilization as well as differences in patterns of alcohol use and were more likely to have used illicit drugs other than marijuana
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1-35
Description
Authors contend that finalism serves as a mechanism that aids the development and maintenance of social amnesia about Native identities and accomplishments, creating a situtation in which Native voices are not just viewed as irrelevant, but also anti-American.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 81-101
Description
Promotes the cohesion of Haudenosaunee people on both sides of the United States/Canada border by sharing history, clan research and linking clan relatives.
American Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, September 2010, pp. 569-590
Description
Discussion on Native evangelical leaders and organizations that circulate through the North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies. The article also looks at the relationship between Native evangelicalism and decolonization.
Ethnicity and Disease, vol. 20, no. 4, 2010, pp. 444-450
Description
Study found that simple interventions that target availability of sweetened beverages in American Indian communities proved feasible and may reduce tooth decay.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
Berkeley Women's Law Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 2004, pp. 287-298
Description
Discusses Sandra J. Schmieder's proposal to allow civil suits against American Indian law enforcement officials who fail to enforce protective orders and argues that Schmieder fails to recognize the juristictional and financial obstacles involved when attempting to protect victims of violence.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 69-92
Description
Looks at how Two-Spirit critiques, critiques that centralize Native peoples, nations, identities, land bases, and survival tactics, challenge and strengthen work in queer studies.
Theatre and Film Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2004.
Discusses the plays: Flight of the Army Worm by Geraldine Keams, Strength of Indian Women by Vera Manuel, Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots by Monique Mojica, Ghost Dance by Annette Arkeketa and The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements.
Author speaks about the six determinants of form, Native societies and traditional dwellings. Uses examples from book produced in collaboration with architect Robert Easton.
Duration: 52:14.
Ethnicity and Health, vol. 9, no. 3, August 2004, pp. 253-266
Description
Results of study suggested how ethnicity and BMI may influence specific eating attitudes and behaviours among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal girls in grades 5-12.
Report that follows the Honoring Native Women by Stopping the Violence Against Them Conference discusses the prevalence of the violence, the issues that make law enforcement difficult, seeks solutions, and makes recommendations.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 43, no. 2, August 2010, pp. 199-222
Description
Looks at review of research that has attempted to measure levels of rape and examines National Crime Victimization Survey for context of differences between ethnicities.